Hyundai has opened order books for the Staria Electric, and the nine-seat Trend starts the range at 57,450 euros in Germany with 430 km of WLTP range and an 800-volt system that charges from 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes. Belgian orders open this month.

F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin, 22, will drive the top-class Peugeot 9X8 for the first time in a private test at Paul Ricard on 2 December, as Peugeot assesses whether the development driver could step up to a reserve role. Pin set the fastest LMP2 qualifying time at Le Mans this year and led the class for three hours before a brake failure. Team boss Emmanuel Esnault says it will be a proper assessment with realistic ballast, and it is not a bid for a full-time 2027 seat.

BMW Welt closed the only exhibition that has ever gathered all 20 BMW Art Cars, drawing more than 120,000 visitors in 34 days. It ended an 18-month world tour that ran to 60 stops and over two million visitors. Five of the cars now live on as selectable widgets on BMW's Panoramic Vision display, and they all come from the same six-year stretch of the collection.

Ollie Millroy's Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo caught fire after being hit side-on in Saturday's opening China GT race at Shanghai. Loek Hartog stopped his Porsche, ran over, took a fire extinguisher from a marshal and pulled the Briton out before the fire crew arrived. Millroy escaped with five broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a bruised lung. His team has quit the championship in protest.

WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca has renamed Turns 8 and 8A the Zanardi Corkscrew, honouring the two-time CART champion who died on 1 May at 59. The dedication came 30 years after Alex Zanardi's final-lap pass on Bryan Herta at that corner, a move that put his inside wheels in the dirt and that today's track-limits rules would punish. The permanent monument exists so far only as a rendering.

Design house Venuum has revealed the 812 Titan X, an all-new widebody reinterpretation of Ferrari's front-engine V12 812 grand tourer, limited to just 35 examples worldwide. Every surface is reimagined for a wider, lower, more aggressive look, with a redesigned aero package and more sculptural bodywork, while the naturally aspirated V12 is left untouched. Venuum has not disclosed price or full specifications, but it is a genuinely rare, design-led take on one of Ferrari's most beautiful modern cars.